On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 08:52:36PM +0300, Kimmo Koivisto wrote: > > So, is it possible to define "query" parameters to the kickstart http url > during the boot? > > Example: > ks=http://kickstart.server.domain/kickstart.php?hostname=newmachine.domain.test&startssh=1&type=ldapserver > Yes, although I have found that sometimes kickstart chokes on the ? and & in the url (this may have been fixed though). In the past I worked around that just by using PATH_INFO instead of a query, so your url would be like http://server/ks.cgi/hostname=newmachine.domain/startssh=1/type=ldapserver Then your ks.cgi can be something as simple as (I don't do php): #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use warnings; use CGI; my $cgi = new CGI; my @vars = split('/',$cgi->path_info); my %vars; for(@vars) { my($l,$r) = split('=',$_); $vars{$l} = $r; } print $cgi->header,<<"END"; # Generated kickstart file for $vars{hostname} ... kickstart configuration ... %post END print "chkconfig sshd ".($vars{startssh} ? 'on' : 'off')."\n"; -- Jason Kohles A witty saying proves nothing. email@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Voltaire (1694 - 1778) http://www.jasonkohles.com/
